Week End Friday February 21, 2020
{quotes}
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
There are three worthy loves – love of God, love of God’s creation, love of self.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Having ‘enough’ is not an amount. It’s a state of being.
Lynne Twist
Live in defiance of all that is bad around you.
Howard Zinn
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
{blessings}
Look for it
God isn’t the only one who gives blessings – you can too. Today, God will show you the one person for you to bless. Look for it. God will give you the skills, the means, the energy, the actions necessary, and the words to make that person’s day a blessing.
Deliver on Your Promise
You are someone special. God has big plans for you. You have an obligation to live up to divine expectations. May you be blessed to deliver on your promise.
Developing Courage
While you may think with thankfulness of the blessings of the past or look expectantly to the future, it is the dawn of day that offers you something new. The present moment is where courage is developed, optimism strengthened and blessings flow. May God bless you.
Good Family
If you didn’t come from a good family, make sure a good family comes from you. May God bless you to be a role model for your children and may your good character be a light unto the nation.
Continuing On
You’re never really starting over, you’re really just continuing on. May God bless you on life’s journey.
{prayers}
Loved and Deserving
Dear God, thank You for loving me. May I always remember I am loved and I am deserving of love.
Meeting in Stillness
Dear God, I come to you to withdraw from the stressful chaos surrounding me. I retreat to Your sacred place, simmering with stillness, where we meet. Where I am in peace with You. Where I am better from the encounter.
Pushing into Prayer
Dear God, I want to not wither and fade when the days pass by and I still don’t see the fullness of what You have promised to me. I want to remain steadfast and loyal. I want to keep pushing into prayer.
Hannah Brenchner
It Doesn’t Always Mean
Alone doesn’t always mean lonely. Relationship doesn’t always mean happy. Remind me dear God, being alone will never cause me as much loneliness as will being in the wrong relationship. Praise to You who brings the right people together at the right time.
Messages & Meanings
God, thank You for the gift of Your Word. Help me understand the message and its meaning. Show me how to apply the lessons learned to the life I lead. Accept me as I am – flawed but faithful, loving and true.
{stories, features, videos}
Story: The Golden Arches
Blog: Is Heaven Up There? Katherine O’Malley
Video: It’s a Funny Hallelujah
Feature: High School Sweethearts Wed After 63 Years Apart
Video: Hair Love Short Film
Feature: No Pill for Loneliness
{bible affirmations}
Psalm 7:6
Arise O Lord, in Your anger rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake my God and ordain judgement.
James 1:2
Consider it pure joy brothers and sisters whenever you face trials of any kind.
Luke 14:17
All is now ready.
Genesis 30:37-39
Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. And that’s how the zebra got his stripes.
Genesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.